These upper primary activities and games have interactive content. Have a play on a laptop, tablet or computer!
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Sliding Game
A shunting puzzle for 1 person. Swop the positions of the counters at the top and bottom of the board.
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Fractions and Coins Game
Calculate the fractional amounts of money to match pairs of cards with the same value.
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Seeing Squares for Two
Seeing Squares game for an adult and child. Can you come up with a way of always winning this game?
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Phiddlywinks
Have a go at this version of John Conway's game. Do you have any good strategies for winning?
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Tessellation interactivity
An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of
regular polygons
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Tangram Browser
Explore our selection of interactive tangrams. Can you use the tangram pieces to re-create each picture?
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Interactive Balance
In this simulation of a balance, you can drag numbers and parts of number sentences on to the trays. Have a play!
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World of Tan 11 - The past, present and future
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the telescope and microscope?
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World of Tan 22 - An appealing stroll
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the child walking home from school?
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World of Tan 29 - The Telephone
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the telephone?
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Tangrams
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Can you make five differently sized squares from the interactive tangram pieces?
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Seeing Rhombuses
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a rhombus.
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Seeing Parallelograms
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a parallelogram.
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5 by 5 Mathdokus
Age
7 to 16
Challenge level
Can you use the clues to complete these 5 by 5 Mathematical Sudokus?
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4 by 4 Mathdokus
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
Can you use the clues to complete these 4 by 4 Mathematical Sudokus?
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Less is More
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Use your knowledge of place value to try to win this game. How will you maximise your score?
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Fruity Totals
Age
7 to 16
Challenge level
In this interactivity each fruit has a hidden value. Can you deduce what each one is worth?
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World of Tan 2 - Little Ming
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Ming?
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Number Lines in Disguise
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?
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Always, Sometimes or Never? Shape
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Are these statements always true, sometimes true or never true?
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Shape Draw
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Use the information on these cards to draw the shape that is being described.
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Calendar Sorting
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
The pages of my calendar have got mixed up. Can you sort them out?
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How long does it take?
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
How long does it take to brush your teeth? Can you find the matching length of time?
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Coded hundred square
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?
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Four-digit targets
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
You have two sets of the digits 0-9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make four-digit numbers as close to the target numbers as possible?
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Treasure Hunt
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
Can you find a reliable strategy for choosing coordinates that will locate the treasure in the minimum number of guesses?
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First Connect Three
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Add or subtract the two numbers on the spinners and try to complete a row of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
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Multiplication Square Jigsaw
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?
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Square tangram
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
This was a problem for our birthday website. Can you use four of these pieces to form a square? How about making a square with all five pieces?
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Nine-Pin Triangles
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?
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Diagonally Square
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Ayah conjectures that the diagonals of a square meet at right angles. Do you agree? How could you find out?
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Mathdoku
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Complete the Mathdoku grid using the clues. Can you convince us that the number you have chosen for each square has to be correct?
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Your number is...
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
Think of a number and follow the machine's instructions... I know what your number is! Can you explain how I know?
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Remainders
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
I'm thinking of a number. My number is both a multiple of 5 and a multiple of 6. What could my number be?
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Matching Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
Can you match pairs of fractions, decimals and percentages, and beat your previous scores?
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Multiplication Tables - matching cards
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Practise your tables skills and try to beat your previous best score in this interactive game.
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Flip Flop - matching cards
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Practise your number bonds whilst improving your memory in this matching pairs game.
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Factor Lines
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.
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Colour in the Square
Age
7 to 16
Challenge level
Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 x 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?
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Quadrilaterals
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
How many DIFFERENT quadrilaterals can be made by joining the dots on the 8-point circle?
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Which Scripts?
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?
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Dozens
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
Can you select the missing digit(s) to find the largest multiple?
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Number Sandwiches
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
Can you arrange the digits 1, 1, 2, 2, 3 and 3 to make a Number Sandwich?
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4 Dom
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Use these four dominoes to make a square that has the same number of dots on each side.
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Three Way Mix Up
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Jack has nine tiles. He put them together to make a square so that two tiles of the same colour were not beside each other. Can you find another way to do it?
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Teddy Town
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?
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Four Triangles Puzzle
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?
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Ladybird Box
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Place six toy ladybirds into the box so that there are two ladybirds in every column and every row.
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Tea Cups
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
Place the 16 different combinations of cup/saucer in this 4 by 4 arrangement so that no row or column contains more than one cup or saucer of the same colour.
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Mystery Matrix
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fill in this table square? The numbers 2 -12 were used to generate it with just one number used twice.
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Triangles all Around
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you find all the different triangles on these peg boards, and find their angles?
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Largest Even
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
How would you create the largest possible two-digit even number from the digit I've given you and one of your choice?
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Board Block Challenge
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?
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3 by 3 Mathdokus
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
Can you use the clues to complete these 3 by 3 Mathematical Sudokus?
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Poly Plug Rectangles
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
The computer has made a rectangle and will tell you the number of spots it uses in total. Can you find out where the rectangle is?
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Unravelling Sequences
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you describe what is happening as this program runs? Can you unpick the steps in the process?
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Triangle in a Square
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Do you agree with Badger's statements? Is Badger's reasoning watertight? Why or why not?
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An Easy Way to Multiply by 10?
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Do you agree with Badger's statements? Is Badger's reasoning 'watertight'? Why or why not?
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A Puzzling Cube
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Here are the six faces of a cube - in no particular order. Here are three views of the cube. Can you deduce where the faces are in relation to each other and record them on the net of this cube?
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Dotty Circle
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Watch this film carefully. Can you find a general rule for
explaining when the dot will be this same distance from the
horizontal axis?
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Triangle Pin-Down
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Use the interactivity to investigate what kinds of triangles can be
drawn on peg boards with different numbers of pegs.
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Arrangements
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Is it possible to place 2 counters on the 3 by 3 grid so that there
is an even number of counters in every row and every column? How
about if you have 3 counters or 4 counters or....?
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A Square of Numbers
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you put the numbers 1 to 8 into the circles so that the four calculations are correct?
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1, 2, 3 Magic Square
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Arrange three 1s, three 2s and three 3s in this square so that
every row, column and diagonal adds to the same total.
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The Number Jumbler
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
The Number Jumbler can always work out your chosen symbol. Can you work out how?
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Missing Multipliers
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
What is the smallest number of answers you need to reveal in order to work out the missing headers?
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Junior Frogs
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Have a go at this well-known challenge. Can you swap the frogs and toads in as few slides and jumps as possible?
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Latin Lilies
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
In this game you are challenged to gain more columns of lily pads than your opponent.
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Rod Ratios
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Use the Cuisenaire rods environment to investigate ratio. Can you find pairs of rods in the ratio 3:2?
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Cuisenaire Squares
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
These squares have been made from Cuisenaire rods. Can you describe the pattern? What would the next square look like?
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Rearranged Rectangle
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
How many different rectangles can you make using this set of rods?
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Rod Fractions
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
Pick two rods of different colours. Given an unlimited supply of rods of each of the two colours, how can we work out what fraction the shorter rod is of the longer one?
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Board Block Challenge for Two
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Board Block Challenge game for an adult and child. Can you prevent your partner from being able to make a shape?
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World of Tan 30 - Logical Thinking
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you logically construct these silhouettes using the tangram pieces?
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World of Tan 28 - Concentrating on Coordinates
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the playing piece?
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World of Tan 27 - Sharing
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Fung at the table?
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World of Tan 26 - Old chestnut
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the brazier for roasting chestnuts?
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World of Tan 25 - Pentominoes
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the people?
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World of Tan 24 - Clocks
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the clock?
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World of Tan 21 - Almost there now
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the lobster, yacht and cyclist?
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World of Tan 20 - Fractions
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the chairs?
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World of Tan 19 - A Circular Problem
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this teacup?
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World of Tan 18 - Soup
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of Mah Ling and Chi Wing?
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World of Tan 17 - Weather
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the house?
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World of Tan 16 - Time Flies
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the candle?
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World of Tan 15 - Millennia
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the numbers?
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World of Tan 14 - Celebrations
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of Little Ming and Little Fung dancing?
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World of Tan 13 - A Storm in a Tea Cup
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the convex shapes?
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World of Tan 12 - All in a fluff
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the rabbits?
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World of Tan 10 - Butterflies
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the butterfly?
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World of Tan 9 - Animals
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the camel and giraffe?
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World of Tan 8 - Sports Car
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the sports car?
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World of Tan 7 - Golden Goose
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the plaque design?
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World of Tan 6 - Junk
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the silhouette of the junk?
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World of Tan 5 - Dragon
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the dragon?
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World of Tan 4 - Monday Morning
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of Wai Ping, Wu Ming and Chi Wing?
Older upper primary Flash-based interactives
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